4. Personal Conveyance Process

Personal Conveyance is a term that appears in the regulations applied to drivers of commercial motor vehicles. Commonly known as personal use, personal conveyance or PC is applied to driver logs when a driver uses the vehicle for transportation to a destination that is not part of their work responsibilities.

The personal conveyance (PC) features in our line of mobile, ELD, and telematics products are typically managed by the Transflo support team or implementation team. Some companies using ELDs want to limit how far a driver can drive in personal conveyance status. Because Geotab, the primary OEM original equipment manufacturer for ELD The term electronic logging device (ELD) means a device or technology that automatically records driving time for a specific driver and facilitates the accurate recording of the hours of service for the driver. products does not have a way to truly limit personal conveyance, TRANSFLO® has created a process to allow companies to enforce their PC limit.

The following monitoring process is repeated every five minutes:

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The following steps describe the process for handling a Personal Conveyance status:

The driver was in PC for 50 miles, then Geotab switched them from PC to D. The driver attempted to return to PC later in the day, but TRANSFLO switched them from PC to OFF and inserted the annotation.

The removal from PC status also occurs if a driver moves 25 miles, goes out of PC, and drives another 25 miles, because technically they've reached the 50-mile limit.

Although Geotab doesn't detect this scenario and a driver could potentially do this repeatedly, TRANSFLO® is designed to remove them from PC status once they've gone 50 miles since their last reset.

Note: TRANSFLO® includes PC as part of the rest reset. This is allowed because TRANSFLO® cannot account for them being in off-duty status and PC status for multiple days at a time. Therefore, in some cases, it appears that a driver is in PC mode for more than the configured limit. Also, because the mobile app checks status every five minutes, some discrepancies can be explained.

The following illustration is an example of a driver unplugging the device, driving approximately 50 miles, and then plugging the device back in.

  • The driver then selected PC status and drove only another 0.6 miles, before Geotab detected an odometer reading discrepancy.

  • Geotab removed the driver from the PC mode because the PC limit was exceeded according to the odometer readings and automatically moved him into Drive mode.

  • The process relies very heavily on odometer readings, so if a discrepancy arises with the readings, Geotab may change the mode accordingly.

  • This driver selected PC mode and drove 5.8 miles before being moved to an Off mode that TRANSFLO® then added to the log notes.